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Life after growth
The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the contrary, we suffer from greater job insecurity and environmental chaos threatens.
The prescription from the mainstream economists is more growth – but is this just taking more of what ails us? Has growth become uneconomic? Is there another way?
"Life After Growth", a film by Leah Temper and Claudia Medina, Enmedia productions.
READ MORE | April 21, 2010
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Authors: Participants of the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity
Issued: Barcelona, June 2010
This Declaration resulted from the Second International Degrowth conference in Barcelona. It contains the essence of the political proposals developed during the working groups. The first draft was prepared and discussed by the conference organization committee and later posted on a wiki where the working group representatives appointed for the declaration preparation and conference organizers could react.
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